Mah Jeffrey M, Kherani Irfan N, Hurley Bernard
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2020 Jul 15;11(3):e67-e72. doi: 10.36834/cmej.69809. eCollection 2020 Jul.
To date, there exists no formal assessment of the competitiveness of the residency match for Canadian ophthalmology programs. The primary objective of this study was to use Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) data to describe trends in the number of positions, number of applicants and level of competition for the Canadian ophthalmology match.
The number of positions and the number of applicants for each ophthalmology program were received from CaRMS for each cycle of the match from 2006-2017. The level of competition was calculated by dividing total number of applicants by the total number of positions in any given year.
The level of competition was consistently high with a median number of 2.0 applicants per anglophone Canadian Medical Graduate (CMG) position, 2.6 applicants per francophone CMG position and 32.5 applicants per International Medical Graduate (IMG) position. Over the study period, the level of competition decreased for francophone CMG and IMG positions and did not change for anglophone CMG positions.
Consistently there are a greater number of applicants than positions for Canadian ophthalmology residency programs and therefore CMG applicants should be encouraged to apply to more than one discipline. The trends in the number of residency positions can be used to update supply projections for ophthalmologists and guide human resource planning.
迄今为止，尚未对加拿大眼科住院医师匹配项目的竞争力进行正式评估。本研究的主要目的是利用加拿大住院医师匹配服务（CaRMS）数据来描述加拿大眼科匹配项目的职位数量、申请人数量和竞争程度的趋势。
从CaRMS获取了2006 - 2017年每个匹配周期中每个眼科项目的职位数量和申请人数量。竞争程度通过将特定年份的申请人总数除以职位总数来计算。
竞争程度一直很高，每个加拿大英语医学毕业生（CMG）职位的申请人中位数为2.0，每个加拿大法语医学毕业生职位为2.6，每个国际医学毕业生（IMG）职位为32.5。在研究期间，加拿大法语医学毕业生和国际医学毕业生职位的竞争程度下降，而加拿大英语医学毕业生职位的竞争程度没有变化。
加拿大眼科住院医师项目的申请人数量一直多于职位数量，因此应鼓励加拿大医学毕业生申请人申请多个学科。住院医师职位数量的趋势可用于更新眼科医生的供应预测并指导人力资源规划。
